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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
I don't mean to generalize--no-one should take this personally--but the problem with conspiracy theorists generally is that they claim to be skeptics, but are usually only skeptical about information that contradicts what they already believe.
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An article at BBC.com dated Sept. 24, 2001, only days after the 9/11 attack, where a psychology professor predicted the paranoia to come:
According to Psychology Professor Cary Cooper we are trying to stave off fear of random violence and unpredictable death.
"They do that because they can't come to terms with the fact that it could be just a few people," said Professor Cooper, who lectures at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
"If you think it's a rogue person or an unsophisticated group you start worrying about your daily life. If this can happen, what sense of security can you have?"
Professor Cooper predicts that, in the weeks ahead, US terror attack theories will expand and become attributed to an ever larger group of culprits.
"We simply can't believe a small number of people could be behind it," he says, adding that a similar ripple effect followed the John F Kennedy shooting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1561199.stm
A scientific look at the psychology of the typical conspiracy theorist.
http://www.economist.com/science/Pri...ory_ID=1648616
More:
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
Pyschology Today on the topic:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/artic...25-000003.html
The A to Z of Conspiracy Theories:
http://www.conspiracybomb.com/azconspiracy.htm
A famous 1964 essay on paranoia in American politics:
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/conspir...oid_style.html
An updated interpretation of that essay:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...24_page2.shtml
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standard misdirection.
discredit the entire 9/11 truth movement by debunking a planned straw-man argument.
the pentagon story is all but ignored by the pros of the movement, for that EXACT reason.
Looger
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You couldn't have done more to confirm IowaFlamesfans post if you'd tried.
Cowperson